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Bjorn Lomborg reviews the recent scientific literature and a report on extreme weather from the IPCC that got little attention to point out that the idea that climate change is responsible for an overall increase in extreme weather is bunk. In other words, he debunks the idea using the standards that warmists claim to hold regarding scientific evidence.
He points out that there is no support for the idea of widespread extreme weather in the scientific literature. The idea is confined to popular literature.
He also makes the following points:
He points out that there is no support for the idea of widespread extreme weather in the scientific literature. The idea is confined to popular literature.
He also makes the following points:
- Global warming is real.
- It is partly man made.
- It will make some things worse and some things better.
- It will increase temperatures in summer -- more extreme weather -- but also increase temperatures in winter -- less extreme weather. Since more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat 1.4 million lives on the average will be saved by warmer winters.
- Warmer temperatures will increase rain fall -- more extreme -- but reduce drought -- less extreme.
- Hurricane wind speeds will increase -- more extreme -- but the number of hurricanes may fall -- less extreme.
- A paper in the peer reviewed journal Nature showed that extremes in temperature have not increased since 1960.
It is understandable that a lot of well-meaning people, wanting stronger action on global warming, have tried to use the meme of extreme weather to draw attention. But alarmism and panic are rarely the best way to achieve good policies. The argument that global warming generally creates more extreme weather needs to be retired.